Corporate and educational settings increasingly address more decision-making, problem-solving and other complex cognitive skills to handle complex cognitive, or heuristic, tasks, but the ever-increasing needfor heuristic knowledge has outpaced the refinement of task analysis methodsfor heuristic expertise. Utilizing the Heuristic Task Analysis (HTA) process, a method developedfor eliciting, ana...

Purpose: This article aims to present the results of the first two tasks of a user study looking into mental model of the bibliographic universe and especially their comparison to the FRBR conceptual model, which has not yet been user tested. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed a combination of techniques for eliciting mental models and consisted of three tasks, two of which, card s...

This work is an attempt to evaluate different experimental methods, ABX vs. AXB, and the use of reaction time (RT) measurement in assessing perceptual sensitivity to phonemic similarity based on perceptual representation of Thai initial consonants [1]. Thirty phoneme pairs are selected to represent varying degrees of similarity: highly similar, moderately similar, and clearly distinct. All the ...

The present study compares two measures most frequently used to assess pragmatic competence: Written Discourse Completion Tasks (WDCT) and Oral Discourse Completion Tasks (ODCT). The study focuses on these two speech act data collection methods and explores the validity of using different forms of Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs) in non-Western contexts. Twenty four Iranian university students...

aim and background: asthma is a chronic illness that can severely affect people's lives. the aim of this study was to compare anxiety, depression, brain behavioural systems (bis-bas), coping styles, anger and hostility among people with and without asthma. methods and materials: fifty women with asthma attending shahid motahhari specialized clinic in shiraz and 50 normal women were selected usi...

Abstract Previous research has indicated that asylum interviewers—contrary to recommendations—use more closed than open questions elicit information. In the current study, we investigated how information is elicited in interviews by analyzing question‐answer pairs 105 official Finnish interview transcripts. We developed a new coding framework for content and characteristics of answers used prev...